April 14, 2009

Only the Dead Know Flooring

I had kind of a shock when I opened my suburban housewife reading material on the train last night and saw Gilda Radner advertising fake-wood laminate flooring. Not that I object in principle to dead people having jobs, and I'm always pleased when dead people are elected to political office, or win posthumous awards, or something. But, you know, it's Gilda Radner, who was funny and nice, and who died an awful, painful death and is probably best known now for the cancer support groups established in her name. And of course it's not really Gilda Radner, it's a Gilda look-alike (as in, the floor is not really wood, either). But still. And I wasn't in the market for a fake-wood floor, anyway. But it still creeps me out.

Thanks for reading my additional blogpost this week, and may God bless.

A few years back I walked past Gene Wilder, or a Gene Wilder lookalike, in Penn Station. It really looked like him, but then wouldn't he take a limo to the airport? Poor guy just looked exhausted. I left him alone as per the best policy when encountering famous people or their doppelgangers.

...then there's the case of that Mitsubishi van/SUV commercial eight years ago that was using T.Rex's "20th Century Boy" for its music bed. Considering the guy who wrote and sang lead on that record, Marc Bolan, was killed in a car crash, that hit me as wildly inappropriate as it would if United Airlines suddenly licensed Jim Croce's "The Hard Way Every Time" for its TV spots...

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Sara
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